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My Puritan grandmo
and spun
And prayed to God on Thanks.
giving Day;
Her soul content with a work well
done
And her heart too earnest for
floasires ay.
But I like to think that her irk-
some load,
Travail and labor and urge and
goad,
Was joy—because she was hew-
ing a road
A road that should be my way.
N YF
a trail
And looked to God on Thanke«
ving Day,
w can I dare to shirk or fail,
I who have such a debt to pay?
rayer,
t her torch in my hands, to
dare
To aon unsullied and straight
a air
The road that she made my
Way. iL. MITCHELL THORNTON
in Americon Agriculinrist
HE Mortons had moved thelr
big round dining room table
into the living room by the
fireplace just for the day.
“The fire will be so cheerful
for our Thanksgiving dinner
and then we can sit around
and listen to the radio,” sug-
gested Corinne, the younger daughter,
Mrs. Morton was trying bravely to
hide the grief in her heart at the ab-
sence, for the first time from their
holiday table, of her son, Tom.
There was an enforced air of cheer
fulness as they all set to work to lay
the forks and knives and make the cen-
terplece of pumpkin and chrysanthe-
mums.
Tom had disappeared more or less
mysteriously from the home town and
Arranging the Centerpiece of Pump
kin and Chrysanthemums.
the family circle more than six months
before and no one, not even his mother
nor his sweetheart, Beth Arden, had
heard a line from him. The fact that
he was a temperamental lad and had
been possessed with the belief that he
was a round peg in a square hole had
led all those who loved him to believe
that he had merely disappeared of his
own volition but had not met with ac-
cident or foul play.
When the big table was fairly groan-
ing under its weight of food and the
turkey lay brown and tempting on the
platter in front of Mr. Morton's place
there was not a member of the party
who did not want to quote the trite old
lines, “There is no fireside, howsoe'er
defended, but has one vacant chair”
But no one sald a word about the ab
sent Tom.
“It is so nice to be included In your
family party today,” sald Beth as she
took her seat.
“We couldn't think of anything else
with your own family so far away,”
said Mrs. Morton, kindly.
A general discussion of drumsticks
and turkey anatomy followed as each
of the children tried to be polite and
yet make it known to father which part
he preferred.
“Tom always liked the part that goes
over the fence last,” piped up Johnny,
the youngest Morton, regardless of the
danger of bringing tears to his moth-
er's eyes.
“He did, dear,” said his mother with
trembling voice. But she smiled
“How about a little music while we
eat, son,” sald the father after he had
helped himself to what was left of the
bird.
David, the family radic enthusisst,
was only too eager to tune {& some
thing and drag forth from the alr some
of his favorite music.
“Nothing like a little good music to
Jazz up a family party,” he said, turn.
ing the dials with masterly hand,
He got a station that advertised a
good dinner program and resumed his
seat.
One plece of popular mosie followed
another with announcements In be
tween and it was not long before the
Morton family had shaken off its haunt.
ing loneliness for the absent Tom and
was enjoying the program and the din.
ner.
Suddenly came a voice from the loud.
speaker--a voice that startled every
member of the family--and Beth. It
PILGRIMS’ FAST DAY
REVIOUS to the start of the Pil-
grims from Leyden, Holland, on
their trip to America, a solemn day
of fasting was decreed, the day be
fore leaving, the 21st day of July,
1620. After the landing in Ply-
mouth, the Colonists experienced
great hardships, and as a means of
evidencing their reliance on Al
mighty God a solemn day of fast
Ing was proclaimed for Wednesday,
the 16th day of July, 1028. On this
day no food was partaken of from
sunrise to sunset, but the entire
day was spent in religious obsery-
ince and prayer.—Washington Star,
was, undoubtedly, Tom Morton's voice,
“It's Tom!" sald every one. |
“Listen!” said Mr. Morton ralsing |
& silencing hand.
The voice of the
clearly into the room.
“In the absence of P.N.D., our an- |
nouncer for this hour, who wanted to |
Join his family for Thanksgiving ture |
key, 1 will make the announcements
for W.F.K."
“But what's he doing? How does he |
wanderer came |
rigible Johnny,
“No one knows more than you do, |
”
see,
" "Anyone wishing to request special
call Shopkins 8S88" Tom's voice said
after a number of singers had done
their bit.
Mr. Morton rose quickly and went to
the telephone in the rear hall
The family seated around the dwin-
dling dinner was breathless with Inter.
est and excitement,
By the smile she saw on Mr. Mor-
ton's face and the trace of tears In his
fine eyes, the mother knew that there
was no bad pews of her son.
Mr. Morton sat down before he told
his story.
Tom, it seems, had become dissatis-
fied with his slow progress in the home
town and was ashamed to keep on
moving from one fallure to another
and, In spite of what he knew was
not the right way to do it, he had left
to try some work he had always felt
would be in his line—managing a sort
of spectacular advertising department
for a large store.
He had found a berth In a city near.
by and had been very successful in
conducting a radio studio for his firm,
He had waited to let his family hear
of him in just this way because he felt
fe
“Listen!” Said
Silencing Mand.
that it would make it a real Thanks
giving for every one—most of all for
him.
“And he's on his way here now-—be
here In an hour and a half,” finished
the father,
“And the turkey's tall is gone,” la
mented Johnny.
“Never mind. My son shall have a
wonderful dinner and—oh, Beth, you
will help us to try to hold him, now,
won't you?"
Beth nodded a little gulitily. Perhaps
she had been partly to blame for his
disappearance but she would make up
for It now. Absence had taught her
that she loved Tom.
MoClure Newspaper Syndicate,
® “TWNU Service
days, although all states observe New
Year's day, Fourth of July and Christ
mas,
HANKSGIVING is a day of
glory and substance. Such
a day it was in the begin-
ning and it is hoped it ever
shall be. Its glory is the
spirit of thankfulness that
pervades the hearts of us
i. all. The substance is the
bountiful supply of food that is ours.
Perhaps these are the reasons that
Thanksgiving is particularly a family
day, a day in which all of the family
are thankful to be gathered under one
roof once more. Thanksgiving day, ob-
serves a writer in the Kansas City Star,
One may follow the traditional menu
for that day or one may improvise, us-
Dinner the Bird Is
Carved in the Kitchen.
ing the turkey for the main theme
building such variations of #Havors
about it that you may have your own
gastronomic symphony so perfectly
planned that your guests will remem-
i ber your Thanksgiving dinner, for the
particular harmonies of color and table
need not follow too closely the spirit
of the day. Your decorations may be
thoroughly wodern or traditional. as
you please. The bowl of fruits as cen-
terplece is the latter. It may
flanked by such decorations as glass
blown herons or silver pheasants.
An Early Ameriean Thanksgiving
Dinner,
Roast Turkey Stuffed
A Pair kens Stuffed and
Boiled With Cabbage and a Piece of
Lean Pork A Chicken Ple
Potatoes, Squash, Onions
Gravy and Gravy Sauce, Apple
and Cranberry Sauce Oyster
Sauce, Brown and While Bread
Flum and Plain Pudding
With Bweet Sauce Mince,
Fumpkin and Apple Ples
Cheoss
"ous am
Turnips
Let Motto Be
GOOD HEALTH
BY DR. LLOYD ARNOLD
Professor of Bacteriology and Preventive
Medicine, University of 1linois,
College of Medicine.
YOU CAN PASTEURIZE MILK
A city mother was telling a country
mother how lucky she was that she
could raise her
baby where there
was clean alr and
open fields and
sunshine,
“I know these are
important,”
the country moth-
er, “but you city
people have
teurized
while we
milk,
our bables will get
in the milk they
drink.”
The country mother was right.
teurization of milk i= one of the great-
est boons to health that the city offers
children. Milk is one of man's best
foods, but it is also a good food for
germs. Germs grow well In milk, Milk
from cattle certified to be free from
disease and handled by persons free
from disease Is good wholesome milk.
but unless this certification of health
has been made, then a family should
not take any chances on milk that is
used for drinking or in the preparation
of uncooked food. Unpasteurized milk
may of course be used safely In cooked
or baked dishes.
Milk, as stated above, is a food in
which many kinds of germs thrive.
Some of these are harmless to man, but,
unfortunately, many are decidedly
harmful. Among these are the tuber-
typhoid fever, septic sore
Pasteur that
milk to a certain degree
certain length of time, these
discovered when he
for a
harmful
destroyed and tb
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plan that
worked out
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The vari
complicated
after a little
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tainly much simpler
some than the care
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practice will
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a sick child
We devised two simple temperature
indicators chemicals that
“clear” at the desired tempera
By the first you can easily tell
containing
of coolness is reached and the milk in
no longer safe for the baby
The heat-telling indicator Is a saus
11 mm. In 41
of palmitic acid is placed.
The cooling-point Indicator is a glass
food, The modern hostess places very
few viands on the table
kitchen and served from that quarter,
| tive dish that graces the board. Turkey
jor any fowl may be prepared and
| Chicken, duck, goose or any fine roast
| may be served on Thanksgiving day.
| Your purse, your appetite and the per.
| sonal tastes of the family should be
| considered.
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side lip to facilitate pouring of milk
from pan into bottle, you are ready to
into the pasteurization business,
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better,
Pasteurization technique:
1. Clean out vacuum bottle with hot
with water about 160 degrees F. fill
bottle with this water and let stand.
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the cow.
temperature of milk up slowly, stirring
constantly with a clean spoon
5. When the Indicator becomes
transparent, the temperature of the
from stove immediately and take out
indieator with the spoon.
vacuum bottle.
7. Pour the hot milk Into the bot
tle. Seal with stopper.
8 Set the bottle in a warm cupboard
in the kitchen.
9. Do not use this milk until it has
stood in the vacuum bottle for at least
one hour.
10. When ready to use the milk, hold
one end of Indicator No. 2 In the hand
milk in the bottle. Hold for two to
four minutes. If the milk is above 115,
the bulb will clear. If below, it will
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HOME HAPPINESS
“Would you marry for wealth?”
“No,” answered Miss Cayenne, *1
couldn't think of being bothered with
& person who Is constantly worried
about his income tax."
Recognition
“Do you think we ought to recog
nize Russia ¥'
“I don’t know,” answered Senator
Sorghum, “Russians shouldn't expect
to be mistaken for Santa Claus sim-
ply because they wear large whis
Tribute to Grandpop
Employer—Rather strange, Fred,
that your grandfather should be bur
led on the day that the ball game is |
in town. |
Fred—Yes, good old grandpa—a |
sportsman to the end,
“Why are you rushing about lke
this
“I'm trying
my husband.”
“Had any
io get
offers?”
Montreal
No Imagination There
“Most { the trouble we have
Sure Would
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Sweaty
wale
BLISSFUL IGNORANCE
ner last night? The baseball
ig over™
' xhm '
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ns yet.
Burned Kid
*I want to let you in on the ground
floor,” sald the enthusiastic slicker.
“Nothing doing,” replied the in
tended victim. “1 learned from one
experience that all those
you down into the celiar.”
cois—
Blissful Ignorance
Tommy came home
! the other day and said: “Mother,
| we've got a poor teacher, Why, she
| doesn't even know a horse.”
“Oh,” sald mother. “What makes
| you think that, Tommy?
“Well, I did a drawing of a horse
and she asked me what it was"
| Ashington Collleries Magazine
The Bargain Hunter
“When does the next train leave
for Chicago?” she asked,
"At 2:50, madam,” replied the sta
| tion agent.
“Make it 2:48 and I'll take 18.” she
| sald absent-mindedly. -~ Pathfinder
| Magazine.
Pursuit of Knowledge
“Is your boy Josh learning much
in college?”
*I don't know,” answered Farmer
Corntossel. “Judging by some of
| his favorite magazines, I'm inclined
| to think he has found out .a lot of
things he's keepin’ to hisself.”
Joint Account
“What's a Joint account, pop?”
“It's an account where one person
does the depositing and the other
| the withdrawing."—Vancouver Prov.
Ince,
Does Awav With
“Awkward Age”
PATTERN 1978
This 1s a frock for what used to be
called the “awkward age”—the years
between eight and sixteen, Styles
like this have made It one of the
most attractive feminine ages, The
mode] Is as young as youth, but de.
signed with the skill of a woman's
dress, Look at the front of that bod.
ice with its nicked vest lines empha.
sized by cleverly placed buttons! See
the way the panel idea Is prolonged
in the seams of the skirt! Don't you
like the sleeves?—they ean be short
or long. And please don't overlook
Size 12 takes
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step-by-step
2 11.211 ans incinded
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CRIMSON GULCH IN LINE
“What do you want with a school
asked the traveling sales
house 7”
man,
“We don't want an ordinary school
house,” answered Cactus Joe. “Were
going to start a college and issue
| diplomas.”
“Why be so ambitious?
“For the sake of our politics. No
body seems able to get a good job
rowadays unless he's some kind of
fn college professor, — Washington
Star,
Were Beauties, Too
Magistrate—The policeman i
{ that you and your wife had some
{ words.
Accused—I had some, sir, but 1}
didn’t get a chance to use them.
| New York Journal
A Sure Sign
Mother—So you thihk your young
man's intentions are serious?
Daughter—Yes, mother. He is be
ginning to let me pay when we gn
out.—Washington Post.
HER FAILING
“Is she able to keep a cook?"
“Pecuniarily, yes. Diplomatical-
ly, no
Explanation
“There goes that Mr. Sharp, I won
der how he made all his money I"
“Heaven knows I"
“Ah, that must be why he always
looks so worried.”